Comparison

Allgammon vs Backgammon Trainer & Analysis

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Allgammon

Experience classic backgammon with a modern interface. Play against AI, friends, or players worldwide with real-time multiplayer, smart AI, and learning tools. Analyze your games and solve daily puzzles to improve your strategy.

Highlights
  • Real-time multiplayer
  • Single-player AI opponents
  • Tutor Mode for learning
  • Match analysis
  • Daily puzzle challenges
  • ELO-based ranking system
  • Customizable matches
Features
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Allgammon brings all that you need to play, learn, and master backgammon into one beautifully crafted app. PLAY YOUR WAY Compete in live online matches through instant matchmaking, browse standing offers, or challenge friends directly. Customize the match length, clock, doubling cube, and pip-count display. Prefer to play solo? Play offline against the ai opponent across five difficulty levels, from Beginner to Master. Choose Regular mode for an unaided game, Training mode for feedback on your mistakes, or Tutor mode for the opportunity to reconsider a move before it becomes final. LEARN AND IMPROVE Build your game with interactive, board-based lessons covering everything from the rules and opening theory to core strategy, the doubling cube, racing, bear-offs, game plans, and match play. Keep improving with: - A new checker-play puzzle each day - Timed pip-counting exercises using real positions - Personalized blunder drills built from mistakes in your own matches UNDERSTAND EVERY DECISION Review completed matches move by move with powerful analysis tools. Compare your play with the best alternatives, study checker and cube decisions, explore equity graphs, identify errors and blunders, and see how luck influenced the result. Track your Elo rating, rank, performance rating, win rate, streaks, and long-term statistics. You can also build any position on the board and evaluate its moves, cube decisions, and possible rolls. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Find players by username or through your contacts, send custom match invitations, chat inside and outside matches, react and reply to messages, watch friends play live, and explore detailed head-to-head records. Granular notifications keep you updated when it’s your turn, a friend sends an invitation, a double is offered, or a new message arrives. MAKE IT YOURS Personalize your experience with light and dark modes, board themes, checker designs, rims, trails, gameplay controls, animation settings, sounds, and haptics. Whether you’re learning your first opening roll or studying advanced match strategy, Allgammon helps you play more, learn faster, and understand every move.

About

Backgammon Trainer & Analysis

This app offers a unique approach to backgammon by providing verifiable dice randomness and detailed post-game analysis. It features multiple game variants and an optional Pro upgrade for advanced training tools. Play offline with no account required.

Highlights
  • Verifiable dice randomness
  • Detailed post-game analysis
  • Multiple backgammon variants
  • Optional Pro upgrade
  • Offline play
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Every backgammon app says its dice are random. This one lets you check. Before the first roll of a match, Backgammon Trainer shows you a hash of the secret that every roll in that match comes from. The whole sequence is generated once, from that secret, and it is never regenerated, so the app physically cannot look at the board and choose a die. When the match ends you get the secret. Re-hash it and it must match what you were shown. Replay it and it must produce exactly the rolls you got. You can do both inside the app in one tap, or export the proof and check it with your own tools. Then it tells you what you actually did wrong. THE COACH Finish a match and every decision is reviewed. You get your performance rating, the number serious players use, plus your error rate split between checker play and cube handling. The report leads with your three worst decisions: the roll, the move you made, the move that was better, and exactly how much equity the difference cost you, with a plain sentence explaining why. Cube decisions get their own section, because that is where most rating quietly disappears. Take points and cash points are computed from the Kazaross-XG2 match equity table at your actual score, not from a rule of thumb, so the advice at 2-away 4-away is the advice for 2-away 4-away. ONE PRICE Playing is free and unlimited. Free also includes the fairness proof, the dice ledger and two full coach reports a day. Pro is a single purchase that opens the expert opponent, the live tutor, unlimited reports, the cube explainer, full history, blunder drills and every variant. One payment. It does not renew, and there is no second unlock to buy later. FIVE WAYS TO PLAY Backgammon with the doubling cube, Crawford and Jacoby. Nackgammon, where every game is a priming battle. Hypergammon, three checkers a side. Tavla, played as it is in Turkey, without the cube and with mars counting double. Plakoto from the Greek tavli set, where you pin checkers instead of hitting them. All five are complete rules implementations, not relabelled boards. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY PLAY Legal moves only, with the maximum dice rule, the forced higher die and oversized bear-off dice all handled correctly. Undo before you commit. Home board on either side. Point numbers and pip counts on or off. Larger checkers when you want them. Match play to any length up to 15 points. Everything works offline, with no account and no sign-up. Match export in the plain text format desktop analysis tools already read, so nothing you play here is trapped in here. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and English. Tavla, tavli, nardi and shesh besh are the same game, and this app speaks all of them. PRIVACY Nothing leaves your device. No account, no analytics, no tracking, no network calls. Your matches, your ratings and your dice history are stored on your phone and nowhere else. PRO UNLOCK Pro is a one time in-app purchase for your Apple Account. It is not a subscription, it does not auto renew, and there is nothing to cancel. Restore Purchases is in Settings. Privacy policy: https://app.innovaapps.ai/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Allgammon4 screens
Backgammon Trainer & Analysis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Allgammon at 91% against Backgammon Trainer & Analysis's 0%. Allgammon also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Allgammon versus Backgammon Trainer & Analysis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAllgammonBackgammon Trainer & Analysis
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYARDEN DVIRAlex Gameli Heyman

Customer experience

Allgammon

All ratings16 ratings
Positive81.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%

Backgammon Trainer & Analysis

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Allgammon

No in-app purchases

None

Backgammon Trainer & Analysis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Allgammon free?
Allgammon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Backgammon Trainer & Analysis free?
Backgammon Trainer & Analysis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Allgammon or Backgammon Trainer & Analysis have ads?
Neither Allgammon nor Backgammon Trainer & Analysis shows ads.

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